From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932304AbVHNBkW (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:40:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932307AbVHNBkW (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:40:22 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:25563 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932304AbVHNBkV (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:40:21 -0400 Subject: Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts From: Lee Revell To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Alan Cox , Hugo Mills , Stephen Pollei , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q? Martin_v._L=F6wis ?=" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <896E8B77-FD22-4898-BFE5-559936B8040E@mac.com> References: <42FDE286.40707@v.loewis.de> <1123958572.11295.7.camel@mindpipe> <20050813184951.GA8283@carfax.org.uk> <1123959201.11295.9.camel@mindpipe> <1123981065.14138.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> <896E8B77-FD22-4898-BFE5-559936B8040E@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:40:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1123983619.17816.1.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.3.7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:19 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > And those of us who are Mac OS X oriented have patched our console and > X keycodes to match the mac way of generating symbols: > > Alt-\ = « > Alt-Shift-\ = » > Alt-Shift-+ = ± > My point exactly, it's idiotic for Perl6 to use these as OPERATORS, the atoms of the language, when there's not even a platform independent way to type them in. Lee